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Show Give Data, PSC Tells Warranty WASHINGTON (UPl) -The auto industry, beset by g o v e rnment investigation horn all sides, will get almost certain Federal Ttade &AV 6, V poit accused the automakers of shoddy assembly line woik, imphasizing sales over service, and failing to pay auto dealers enough to encourage to take warranty them i Of airs. s'' ' ' Com- ff mission (FTC) action dealing with complaints about new c ir Wdl duties. 'y' 6 ' r 1 The Department of Transportation, acting under orders from the last Congress, is ear insurance. investigating New congi ecsional hearings are scheduled for April on car repairs. Today the FTC began evaluating more than 5,000 pages of testimony collected in eight days of hearings oil the source of the biggest flood of angry letters in the FTC's history. war-lantio- s 50-je- FTC Chairman Paul Rand Dixon left little doubt the G.M. Plans $1.1 Billion In New Plants Utah railroads must supply a detailed list of the increase they are seeking in freight rates within the slate for a public hearing March 17. The duiu industry, however, trie criticism. General Motors termed the staff report inaccurate. GM said the report did not reflect the facts on warranties objectively or correctly," and said it did not believe the FTC should ask Congress for legislation based on information in the report. For the 30 years before 1961 nearly all the manufacturers or 4,000 mile offered warranties. This was raised to a high of five years and 30,000. But this year, the automakers began cutting back on warranty guai mutts. 14B , , Wednesday, February (ummissioii would take action. We are certainly going to do something, Rand said. The public is entitled to a car free of defects. A source inside the FTC put it another way. He said The commissioners have had a finger pointed at them . . . they would be idiots not to act. 12, 1969 one of two things. It will either ask Congress for legislation to correct inequities in warranties or propose a fedei-a- l regulation on its own wlv'h would be designed to ease the complaints. But no final decision is expected until earh spring. The hearings were triggered by a roX)rt issued Nov. 18 by the FTC's own staff. The rc- - E. said the annual been paying off as more and more Larsen The Public Service Commis-- . sion of Utah today issued a no-- j tice of the hearing, which will! Chamber of Commerce, spon be held at 10 a.m. in its hearing sors of the event. room at 330 E. 4th South. The group arrived in Salt U t a h railroads originally Lake City Tuesday evening asked for increases of from three to 10 per cent, but and were hosted by the Chamamended this request after the ber at the Rodeway Inn. Interstate Commerce Commis-- s the skiers were Today i o n authorized railroads throughout the U.S. to increase! Oil their rates by three per cent.; C. R. Openshaw Jr., secrePROVO Glenn E. Niel- Paul Burke airline executive . trying uie slopes at Park City. Thursday they will ski All;, and Friday Brighton. Ihc fill annual IiitCihue Ski Party has attracted 230 employes of the nations airlines to Utah this week, said Ron Larsen of the Salt Lake Area eent has n skiers are visiting the city and resorts each year. Motels, transportation companies and local airlines are cooperating with the chamber in the promotion by providing accommodations. low-co- 't Aide To Speak At Y. Husky founder As the of Husky Oil, the increases of the board chairman son, he iias the guided company for shipments' being sought chief executive olficer of within Utah's borders may be in and fiom a modest beginning in Husky Oil, will be featured at 1938 excess of the three per cent to today's the opening session of Brigb lead for ICC aPProved Burke' E. Paul international concern. Thirty ham Young Universitys 1969 has been named president 0i'ntP,rsta!e shipment;:, but the Executive series years ago the company, krow Lecture Airlines at a special rua amounts were not given in as Husky Refining Co., operThursday. the railroads to last the petition of the company's meeting The public is invited to the ated a skimming plant and Board of Directors in New Yorkj31 authority. which begins at 4:10 one small oil lease at Cody, For that reason, he said, the lecture City, it was announced Tuesday.! in the Joseph Smith auWyo., with a staff of 19 p.m. John B. Poor, president of; PSC is instructing the railroads ditorium. employees. RKO General, parent company to an amendment prepare in-of the Denver-basethe detailing i airline, percentage Deseret News Special said Mr. Burke has been the creases on principal commodi-- 1 Auditape System Review PHILADELPHIA The new pipe line that will airlines chief executive officer ties. biomedical operations of 50'000 barrels,of oil a earlier this year. Charles A. Hahvorth, CPA, Mr. Halworth leceived a BA The PSC would also like to1 the medical such Drod-'?r- y south from Alaska s new He succeeds Lewis W. San Francisco, will speak on from Cornell Imperial's Fluidonics Division ucts ma.i, ,lay for1 fluidic University and as a instrument At c tic oil fields were announced Dymond in Salt Lake City will be transas president. Mr. the Audictape System at a MBA from of Harvard. His dist.ie automatic .1 preparation b y lllree pj pe line companies ferred to a subsidiary company, Dymond resigned earlier as "The railroads aie further or- - dinner meeting Monday of the on cussion the Auditape it was announced this w'eek bv. precise proportioning of fluids' o Naand the chairman oompan.es said the new president dered . . . to more specifically Salt Lake Chapter of the and for example, currently is' will point out the Imperial's Board of Dire -' pipe line wUl be 800 miles long, board. However, he is still adpfine jn(Tease costs as they tional Association of Accoun- - System on a government doing study tors. lhe bMrd ' rapidly growing need for effiThe meeting will be at the cient and effective need for Warren Johnston, vice presithe com- jin the state of Utah. . Buike Frontier in 7th E. ai d 4th auditing records maintained joined notice said dent of Imperial and gengust of 1968 following 28 years by computers. South, at 6 p.m. eral manager of the Fluidonics of airline experience with Trans Division in Salt Lake said today j World Airlines. His last position Box Office Manager that this does not mean that the Communications Expert To Speak The companies hope to have with TWA was that of vice pres- in biomedical the instrumenti company is pulling out of Utah. C. Knudsen, 190 N. Douglas in in ident tbe 1972; line operation a transportation operations 8th He said plans and details of the field and recently opened stitute of Industrial Engineeis Dr. Benjamin Noid of the West, West Bountiful, has preliminary surveys are based in New York City. He and American Production and transfer are not complete at manufacturing plant in West been Communicabox mannamed of office conducted this spring. Department began his career in aviation Jordan. this time. Inventory Control societies. The agreeement provides that with TWA in 1910 in Kansas ager of the Salt Palace, it was tions at Weber State College The meeting will be at Hill The transfer will announced recently by Manpermit The board reported the com- Atlantic Pipe Line, a subsidiary City. will be the guest speaker at a Air Force Base Thursday bemore concemtration in the bio- pany as a whole had exper- of Atlantic Richfield Corp., and In January of this year he ager J. Howard Dunn. Salt of Lake the 6:30 at joint meeting p.m. at the Ofginning medical field, both from a ienced a rising trend in new BP would each have 374 per was elected to the board of He w'as formerly box office Club. In ficers American of the and Chapters development business and income. For 1968 cent of the venture and Humble Frontier Airlines and named manager and treasurer at "esearch tandpoint as well as commer-ally- , net income was $11,555,962 after 25 per cent. acting chairman of the board Valley Music Hall in North the directors said. the application of the surtax, Later, other oil companies along with being named a mem- Salt Lake and prior to that he Air West Passenger Record It was pointed out that compared with $11,408,397 in would be asked to participate in ber of both the executive and fi- w'as employed by Husky Oil nance committee of the board. Co. tlie venture. Air West passenger boardprevious January. through the use of fluid technol- - 1967. e e At Cedar City, ings set January records at two Utah airports last manager Jerry Indgjer said Air 636 travelers boarded month. district West last month, compared Norman Hansen, with 508 the previous Janusales manager, said Air West recorded 6,257 boardings at ary, a gain of 25 per cent. West Air Salt Lake City last month, Systemwide, boarded 216,686 at its 78 stacompared with 6.654 in January, 1968. The total was a 24 tions in eight western states. per cent increase over the Canada and Mexico. The FTC is expected to do tary, said many of - Fluidonics Lab In New Division d - General DETROIT (AP) Motors Corp. plans to spend $1.1 billion for new plants, equipment and modernization this year, with some 80 per cent of this being spent in the United States. The lemaining 20 per cent will be spent in Canada and other countries, but Chairman Janies M. Roche declined a breakdown by countries at a Tuesday news confeicnce. He also declined to pinpoint xpansion cities, but did say it is expected spending in 19C9 and subsequent years will continue at a high level." General Motors spent $869 million in 1968 for new plants, equipment and modernization, compared with $913 million in 1967. 'a $ , A 4. 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Excise Tax $1.79 to $3.01 his proposed plan to repay some $6 million in debts. $14 million. y hearings before rebankruptcy feree Russell Mf- - Steen Taylor were de- signed to clarify the value of assets Steen claim: to support 825x14 815x15 lease a ear a The report said Steens repay- -' ment plan deals with assets he valued at $9.3 million, but which witnesses at valued onlv $3,134,000. Mwi. laaarmai IVa attar.:.. tatuMm moy b fofa'Y afftrtA OK ml, b, ia fra-- J, 1969 FEBRUARY MOTORS INCORPORATED A UTAH CORPORATION Each shareholder of the Class A no par value participating preferred stock of the company, shall receive a discount equal to 50 of the companys mark-uon all items carrying a retail price in excess of $100.00. p e a No individual. 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